July 24, 2025 • 35 mins
Twenty-five years after the world braced for Y2K, we're celebrating our 99th mixtape with a journey through the musical landscape of 1999 – arguably one of music's most transformative years. From Latin pop explosions to hip-hop revolutions, this episode captures the diverse soundscape that defined a generation.
The late 90s represented a unique cultural moment when music discovery happened primarily through radio and MTV, creating shared experiences difficult to imagine in today's fragmented landscape. When Ricky Martin burst onto English-language charts with "Livin' La Vida Loca," he didn't just score a hit – he opened doors for countless Latin artists to follow. Meanwhile, Eminem's debut "My Name Is" signaled something revolutionary was happening in hip-hop, establishing a controversial voice that would dominate for decades.
What made 1999 truly special was its balance of innovation and emotional depth. Blink-182's "Adam's Song" tackled teenage suicide with remarkable sensitivity, while Moby's reluctantly-included "Porcelain" brought electronic music further into the mainstream. The Chicks challenged radio censors with "Goodbye Earl," a darkly comedic take on domestic abuse packaged in an upbeat country crossover hit. These weren't just songs; they were cultural touchstones that reflected the optimism, anxiety, and creativity of a society on the cusp of a new millennium.
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- Livin’ la Vida Loca by Ricky Martin
- My Name Is by Eminem
- Someday We’ll Know by New Radicals
- Better Days (And the Bottom Drops Out) by Citizen King
- Goodbye Earl by The Chicks
- Steal My Sunshine by LEN
- Adam’s Song by blink-182
- Porcelain by Moby
- My Own Worst Enemy by Lit
- Scar Tissue by Red Hot Chili Peppers
- Heartbreaker (feat. Jay-Z) by Mariah Carey, JAY-Z
- Forgot About Dre by Dr. Dre, Emine
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Speaker 1 (00:14):
welcome back to another super awesome mix.
My name is matt.
Sit home alongside my co-hostand co-founder super awesome mix
, sammer Samer.
How are we doing this week?
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Doing real well.
I can't believe it.
I mean, you teased it on anearlier episode, but here we are
99 episodes of Super AwesomeMix Unbelievable.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
Unbelievable.
This is our 99th mixtape andyou know a lot of shows
celebrate 100, right, like youknow, you got to get at that
century mark.
But I think since pretty muchday one, we have talked about
the year in 1999 and how muchgreat music we thought came from
that year.
And so you know, we thought,well, let's celebrate our 99th
(00:57):
mix instead of our 100th mix andjust do a tribute to our
favorite, maybe our favoritemusical year, 1999 it's high up
there for sure.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Yeah, I feel like 99 is a good one.
97 was also a really good one,but we already missed that, so I
guess maybe until 197, or well,or nine, or literally 1999.
Yeah, I was gonna say 97episodes by then.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
I'm guessing we'll be reaching a little bit and so,
yeah, we'll probably have to doyear-specific ones at that point
.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
I mean, yeah, we'll see if there's an upper limit to
how many mixtapes one can makeOnce we hit the year 1900, it'll
just be year by year, right,like, okay, now in 1901, this
was a monster hit.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
it sold seven copies, guys, which in today's term
would be 70 million it wastriple platinum if the RIAA had
existed back then.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
It did not, though it did not, um, but yeah, so 99
episodes.
So we did music from 1999.
And I picked songs that I hadon repeat 1999.
This is by no means you know,we always have that disclaimer
by no means a complete list.
There are so many good songsand from the year you know, we
also had Andrew Brand on, theauthor of the book Mixtape for
(02:22):
the End of the World, whichprimarily featured songs from
1999 as well as they reached Y2K.
So that was an excellent mix.
If you're itching for more, youknow 99 music, but here we go.
Yeah, like I think we have areally, really good mix here.
I was excited about this one.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
Yeah, and a really diverse mix.
Like I think we hit a lot ofdifferent genres, so that's good
, so let's get it going.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
Okay, this was your first pick and I thought no
better way to start the mix withLivin' La Vida Loca by Ricky
Martin.
I mean, that's what we're doing, right, livin' that crazy life.
We got a mixtape podcast goingon 100 episodes.
(03:06):
Oh my goodness, I love thissong.
I can't think of a better songto encapsulate the year 1999, at
least in my head, right, Ithink.
You know we tend to kind ofhave nostalgic views of the past
and and kind of not look at allthe terrible things that were
going on.
You know, the nineties by nomeans were perfect.
There was a lot of civil rightsissues, as there always have
been, and you know other thingsgoing on, of course.
But when I look back at 99, I'mlike, oh, what a simpler,
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easier time.
Of course I was younger too,that's the other thing at play.
So I was like in high school.
So you know who's worryingabout the world when you're in
high school.
You got your whole life aheadof you, unless you're Greta, you
know you're not really thinkingabout the world?
Speaker 1 (03:48):
Yeah, unless, you're Greta Thunberg, who was not
alive in 1999.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
I'm just going to let that one sit with me for a
second.
Yeah, just let that one sit fora second yeah.
But yeah, I loved this song.
What great energy.
I mean this blew up Incrediblyhappy song.
I think the rolling stones orsomeone rated it as like one of
the happiest songs of all time.
It absolutely could, you know,belongs on that list.
Very, very catchy beat,contagious energy, um, and yeah,
(04:18):
I just think like that's.
That's what I like to think ofyou know, whenever I think of 99
, we've got some dark songs onthis mix, so we're gonna open
strong and then kind of deflatethe balloon a little bit.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
A little bit right, um, but yeah, I totally agree.
I mean, ricky martin had hismoment in 1999.
This was actually like hisfifth album that this came off
of, but it was his first bigenglish language hit and he
performed at the grammys thatyear.
And it wasn't even this song,uh, that he performed at the
grammys.
But like people went nuts forricky martin after this grammy
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performance, like you could youcan google or go to youtube and
and find the 99 grammysperformance by him and and it
was crazy, especially because Iremember the artists in the
crowd like really getting intoit and usually they stay pretty
cool and instead they just kindof got swept up into the energy
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of the performance and then thatso that was February 99.
Then a couple weeks later thissong is released and of course
it just goes crazy.
So, yeah, monster hit for thattime period.
But also, like I love that youincluded it because that was a
real like moment, like a realthing, and then you just got
this wave of Latin artists afterthat becoming more mainstream.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
Yeah, absolutely no, it was.
Yeah, it was definitely thebeginning of something awesome,
for sure, all right.
Track number two is your pickand you went with my Name Is by
Eminem.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
Yeah.
So Ricky Martin, you know wejust talked about him making a
big splash in 1999.
But you know we got our firsttaste of this guy named Eminem
and this is the lead single offof his first album.
And I just remember, I thinkthe thing that stood out to me,
it's like you heard it on theradio a little bit, but then the
music video was just so funnyand so weird.
But then when you got into thelyrics you realize like there
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was a little bit of a darkerside to them as well.
But I think it was just animmediate signal like that this
was going to be different.
But I think it was just animmediate signal like that this
was going to be different.
And you know, over the next,like I'd say, decade, you got a
(06:39):
lot more Eminem and you know yougot a lot more out of his
lyrics that he really went aftersome people.
But yeah, this, this song, Imean just I just remember
hearing it a lot.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
But also, you know, go back and watch the video
because it's just kind of peak,eminem sort of making fun of
everything and everyone yeah,this definitely set the tone for
for the first part of hiscareer, no doubt, like just kind
of attacking a bunch ofdifferent people and groups.
And you know, I think if weever, if we're itching for mix
(07:02):
ideas, we could do like songsthat didn't age well, and it
would probably just be Eminemand probably some Kanye thrown
on there, just things that maybedon't get played as much.
going into this, generationSeemed like a good idea at the
time maybe Right, right, right,but no, I mean, yeah, my
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goodness, this song was verydifferent.
I mean just very different, andit really did Like you heard it,
you're like oh, wow, like itcaught your attention.
What I thought was reallyinteresting that I didn't know
is that the name of this songand kind of the whole premise of
it is like he was so nervousmeeting Dre, who helped to
produce this album and the song,that the first words out of his
mouth were like hi, my name isEminem, like, and so then that
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just kind of stuck.
The other thing I learned is heused to do all of his songs in
one take and like, literally, ifhe messed up at the end of it,
he just rolled the whole thingback and and do it over again,
like he didn't want to edit anyof his tracks.
Um, I just think that'sincredible.
Like, with that in mind,listening to the lyrics and the
rap that he delivers, like to dothat in one take is very
impressive yes, it's.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
It's insane to think this is all one take.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
Yeah yeah, wild stuff , but really good.
Pick, strong opener on yourside.
We're actually going to go witha different pick of yours.
Uh, you get two back to backhere and it is another strong
contender for 99 year, someday,we'll know, by the new radicals
yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
So I I'm, you know, on this quest to include every
song from new radicals onlyalbum in a mix at some point,
and so I picked this one becauseI hadn't included it.
I hadn't included it elsewhere.
That's essentially why it's onhere, but it's also just a great
song.
So this was their second single.
So you Get what you Give istheir big hit.
(08:53):
It still gets a ton of radioplay.
And then this was the secondsingle.
By the time this single came out, the band had broken up.
So they have this monstersingle.
They put out this album.
This is the second single.
The band is already dissolvedat that point.
Appropriate enough, because thesong is about a relationship
falling apart and how.
(09:15):
Someday we'll understand it.
I just love the lyrics in thisone and how it is so well done,
in sort of a reflective way,where it's like there's so many
things you don't understand, butmaybe someday you'll know and
someday you'll understand why.
The lyric that always stood outto me from like the first time
(09:35):
I heard it I remember is thatline where he asked did the
captain of the Titanic cry?
Right which I think is such agreat question but also, at the
time, very appropriate, because,I don't know, titanic was
probably still in theaters eventhough it'd come out in 1997
that's right.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
I'm sure it was.
Yeah, oh my goodness, I thinkmy sister saw it like 14 times,
so it's still very top of mindfor people.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
So it's like, yeah, well done including that, but
also you know a good question asthis monster ship is sinking.
But, um, yeah, just a great Imean well written song.
Again, I talk about this albumall the time, how great it is
and how unfortunate it is.
These guys only made one album,but you know another one to
check out.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
For sure.
I actually wrote here that Imean this album, and there are a
number of albums out there,right, especially the ones where
it's just like the one albumfrom an artist that was perfect,
where we could just probably doan entire episode just on the
album, um, and talk about it,because, like, the songs are so
strong and they each stand ontheir own.
You know, the miseducation oflauren hill would be another
wonderful example, which I alsobelieve came out in 99.
(10:43):
So that's another strongcontender for why this year was
so great.
Um, but I do love this song.
This is actually the song Ifell in love with the new
radicals listening to and Ialways thought it was a love
song.
Funny enough, this was in thecategory of songs.
I just misinterpreted it as alove song as as a young teenager
and it wasn't until much laterI was like, oh right, it's a
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breakup song.
So I apologize to any pastinterests of mine if I put this
on a mixtape for you, it'sprobably really confusing, like
why is he giving me?
Speaker 1 (11:15):
a week later she's like look, I know we're breaking
up.
And you're like, what, what areyou talking about?
It just made you that mixtape.
And you're like, yeah, no, Iget it.
I get it, it's time to move onthat's why they were also
short-lived I love the kind ofrunning theme we have of you
(11:37):
misinterpreting lyrics andgiving them like I would just
love to have some of these pastrelationships, like you know
call into the show and just belike, yeah, no, it was confusing
.
It was definitely confusinggetting that song from oh
goodness um, all right.
Well, thankfully, sammer, Imean, this next song applies to
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you, because you're definitelyseeing better days.
Um, it's better days.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
Parentheses, and the bottom drops out by citizen king
yeah, I don't know that I havelistened to a different song
from citizen king and even doingthis episode, I was like I was.
I should probably try to listento something else from from
this group, from this guy, and Ihaven't yet, so that's on me, I
will do that, but I love thissong.
(12:22):
This is another song that youknow makes me reminisce about
the year 99, especially becauseit was featured in the show
Malcolm in the Middle, which waslike just a huge, huge show,
and you know, my goodness, talkabout an actor who had a huge
arc, going from playing the dadon Malcolm in the Middle to
Breaking Bad.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
Yeah, yeah.
Bryan Cranston yeah, just thebozo dad on Malcolm in the
Middle and then years later iswinning every award on Breaking
Bad.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
Yeah, winning every award on Breaking Bad.
Yeah, exactly, if you'replaying like a masterful drug
lord, that's a great show.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
I'm going to be honest, I called it in 99.
Yeah, I know that sounds crazy,there's no way to prove it, but
yeah, I called it.
I called it.
You were a visionary.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
You were a visionary.
You know, another addictinghappy song.
The song definitely makes melike full of joy.
I always love the bridge, likethe random little sample which I
thought was like very 90s,where there's like a woman who I
think is saying like like myGucci bag, and then there's a
guy oh, that's beautiful,beautiful.
It's like so random, you know,like just these random little
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samples it's thrown into songsback then.
Uh, that I really enjoyed.
So, um, but yeah, I really likeit, even though, again, you
know, as I read through thelyrics I realized that he's
literally talking about how he'shad better days and so he's
kind of going through a roughpatch right now.
But I always just interpretedit as, like the good days are
here, why not?
Well, yeah, it's kind of'reright.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
It has this kind of happy poppy sort of tune to it,
but yeah, it's like they're nothaving a great day and then the
bottom drops out, right.
It's almost like sort of thishow much worse could this day
get, sort of thing.
But I, you know, you said atthe beginning you're not sure if
you've heard any other songsfrom them, and I had that same
thought.
I was like, do I know anotherCitizen King song?
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I really did think.
And then I'm like you know what?
This is a one-hit wonder,Because this is a song that
still gets played.
If you're on various SiriusXMchannels it'll pop up.
But yeah, we have not heardanything else from Citizen King,
at least not on a big radioairplay level.
I'm sure there's some superfans out there that can tell us
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otherwise.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
For sure.
All right.
So track five here, a strongpick.
I liked this one, and it wasGoodbye Earl.
By the Chicks.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
Yeah, the Chicks, known at that time as the Dixie
Chicks, this was one of.
I mean, they had already had anumber of big hits, but this
album, fly, came out and Fly wasa really big.
I mean, just single aftersingle after single was like
really big for them.
And this one just always stoodout to me because I mean, if
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you're not familiar with thesong, it's about domestic abuse
and how, you know, this womangetting abused and her friend
decide that they're just goingto murder this woman's husband
and get away with it.
And the video is so well done.
It's really.
And again, the song is superupbeat.
The video is almost comicalbecause you get Dennis Franz
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playing Earl and then you knowyou've got Lauren Holly and Jane
Krakowski playing Marianne andWanda, the two women in the song
, and so you've got all thesegreat actors in there and
they're all kind of dancingaround and having fun about how
Earl had to die and you know,goodbye Earl.
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But it's like when you take astep back it's like, oh, they're
gonna murder this guy and thissong's about domestic abuse and
like it's kind of a dark song towhere, like, a lot of radio
stations at the time refused toplay it because they were like,
yeah, it's a little too little,too much.
And it was actually, I think,the first kind of hint you got
that you know the chicks werebecause later they got a lot
more controversial and, you know, got into some trouble.
(16:14):
You know right or wrong, likeyou know, we won't need to get
into all that.
But they definitely got a lotmore political as their career
went on.
But at the time they were justa great like kind of country
crossover sort of trio.
And then this song comes outand it's like, oh okay, this is
something a little different,but it was still kind of a pop
hit.
You heard it on the radio allthe time yeah, this song
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definitely has an edge to it.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
You're absolutely right.
Like I, I view it as almostlike a dark comedy kind of song,
because you know they'rethey're singing it so
lightheartedly and it's it's setto kind of a, you know,
sonically it sounds more upbeatand kind of fun and playful.
But, but, you're right, it'sset to kind of.
You know, sonically it soundsmore upbeat and kind of fun and
playful.
But you're right, it'sliterally about like murdering
someone and getting away with it.
I feel like, if you've not seenthe show Bad Sisters that's an
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excellent show on Apple TV thiscould have been like the theme
song for that show, because thatshow also has a very similar
like theme of you know, thisgroup of women deciding that
someone's spouse needs to die,basically because he was like a
grade A A-hole.
So I think they missed anopportunity there.
They could have done that.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
All right, so your next pick.
You went with Steal my Sunshineby Len.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
Next pick you went with Steal my Sunshine by Len.
Yeah, this is another favoriteof mine from 99.
I love like the conversationthat occurs at the beginning,
you know again like just peopletalking in the middle of songs.
I feel like it doesn't happenso much anymore, but that was
definitely something thathappened a lot.
I love the question where he'slike well, does he like butter
tarts?
It's like it's just a super,super Canadian question.
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Apparently, I've not had abutter tart, but apparently they
are a butter based pastry, ismy understanding.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
Which sounds inherently pretty good, right.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
I'll buy in um and then, yeah, like I, I really I
just loved the sound of thissong, like I just played it a
lot.
What's kind of funny is, youknow, looking at it now all
these years later and reallyinvestigating the lyrics, I just
kind of feel like it's like asong of like these guys, tim and
chad, who are just commentingon their bandmates like mark and
sharon, and then just beinglike kind of mean about them you
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know, like I'm just gonna feellike they're giving them a lot
of flack and it's like what?
what's up with you, tim and chad, like come on back what makes?
Speaker 1 (18:40):
you so great huh right um, yeah, this is a.
I always consider this you'reright, though like if you dig
into the lyrics it's really not.
But this is another one that Iconsider kind of a fun song.
But I remember it from themovie Go, if you recall that
movie then in 99.
And that was a really kind ofunderrated fun movie, but also
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one that's kind of about a lotof criminal activity.
So it's also kind of one ofthese.
It probably fits that in thatit's this fun sounding song with
this fun seeming movie, but butmaybe neither are as fun as you
might think it is.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
Right, Right, I have not seen that one so I'm not too
familiar, but that that seemsto fit thematically with it.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
That's definitely worth checking out.
You may want to go see that one.
Speaker 2 (19:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
And not in a Sam or you're going to hate it, but I
want you to watch it sort ofthing Like I genuinely think you
would enjoy that movie.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
Okay, all right, cool , all right.
Track seven here.
Now, I think for these next twotracks, we both get a little
down with our mood.
You went with Adam's Song byBlink-182.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
All right, I just felt like this song was really
important, right, and so, likewhen I think back to 1999, this
was a song that always stuckwith me because even at the time
, when you know the Internet atthat point people don't probably
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realize this, first of allthere were no smartphones, for
sure and like looking up lyricson the Internet and meanings or
anything like that really itjust wasn't a thing right and so
.
But even at that time you hearthe song and the tone of it and
the lyrics and you're like youknow exactly what this song is
about and they do such a goodjob.
I thought it was such adeparture for Blink-182.
That was such a fun band.
(20:27):
They're still this fun band,right, but they wrote this song.
The song is essentially aboutteenage suicide and you know
even the opening chords of it.
Like I get a little emotional,like still listening to it now,
even though I have no experiencewith those types of emotions or
, thankfully, no directexperience with that.
(20:47):
It's still something thatresonates and I think that
really speaks to the quality ofthe song is that it can kind of
get you, even if you don't havea memory necessarily, to kind of
attach it to.
But yeah, I think it's so welldone.
And again, I love it when aband is really known for one
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thing and then can do somethingelse speaks to kind of how
talented these guys really areyeah, for sure.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
I mean it kind of was a preview.
You know, now, knowing whatthey did with their career was
like a preview that they theyalso had an edge, like they
could go dark with their musicand and be very comfortable in
that space.
What I think is so funny islike a it's on an album called
enema of the state right.
B it's nestled it's track sevenon this album and it's nestled
between track six, dysentery,gary and then and then all the
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small things, which is anotherlike mega hit of theirs, right,
um, and so I just think that'samazing.
yeah, like you, you come off ofdysentery, gary, and now you're
like, oh right, great, I'mreading a suicide letter of a
young teen, um, and it's liketotal mood and vibe shift.
And then now you're talkingabout all the small things and
like you're back, you're back athigh energy and like punk rock
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and all that stuff, um, soyou're right, like I think it it
was really kind of cool andbrave of them to throw this in
there and to put it right smackin the middle of the album to
where it just demands yourattention, like you're going to
hear it, and I think that'sprobably a big part of what made
it so impactful at the time.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
And that album was everywhere.
I mean, that was a huge album.
And at the time.
You know there's no iTunes in1999.
So you're pretty much justbuying the whole album and
listening to it.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
Yeah, exactly yeah.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
All right.
So let's take a little, alittle shift here, at least from
a genre standpoint, and you'vegot Porcelain by Moby.
Speaker 2 (22:37):
Yeah, oh, I love, love, love the song and I think
you know we talked about 99being the start of new things
kind of making their way tomainstream and I think this song
was like one of the first kindof electric songs to kind of hit
the mainstream, Certainly to beas big as it did or, you know,
become as big as it did.
So love, love this song.
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I just think it has this kindof like haunting mix of piano
and that electronic beat and hisyou know, the beautiful vocals.
It's a song about a breakup, soit's definitely like a moodier,
sad song.
And what's really funny, youknow, in doing the research on
it, is he didn't want to releasethis.
He said he, quote, I had Iactually had to be talked into
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including it.
When I first recorded I thoughtit was average.
I didn't like the way Iproduced it, I thought it
sounded mushy, I thought myvocal sounded really weak.
I couldn't imagine anyone elsewanting to listen to it.
Uh, end quote.
And I just think that'sincredible that he, you know he
put this song on therereluctantly and then it ended up
just becoming one of the mostlike prominent songs off of this
album and one that got played awhole lot and then 20 years
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later it was sampled by ASAP,rocky um and the song ASAP
forever, and so it had arevitalization off of that Um.
So I just think it's yeah, it'samazing and it speaks to you
know, I talk on my show superawesome.
You sometimes like what's, youknow what's junky to you might
not be junky to someone else.
Like don't count yourself out,you'd be amazed.
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Like just put it out there andsee what people think.
So I like that aspect of thissong a lot.
I think it's really powerful.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
Yeah, and you're right.
I mean I talked to the top ofthe show how we really did a
pretty good job of including alot of different genres on this
and it kind of speaks to like in1999, there were a lot of
different genres out there thatwere getting regular radio play
and I think for moby this youknow, dance electronic artist.
I mean he really had a momentthere for several years where he
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had a lot of radio hits, whichis rare, I think, for that, that
type of music.
But yeah, this one waseverywhere at the time.
It's's only I counted there's63 words in the song.
Speaker 2 (24:44):
Wow.
So pretty pretty low yeah.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
Not many lyrics, but they're impactful.
And you're right, it's a reallywell done song.
And, you're right, you get alittle bit of instrumentation
along with, like, the electronicpart of it.
So, yeah, really well done.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
Awesome, all right track.
Nine here, one of my great pick.
Speaker 1 (25:04):
I love this one, uh, one of my all-time favorites and
it's my own worst enemy by lityeah, this is such a fun song,
like it's both, you know,regretful and funny at the same
time.
I mean at the time you know,1999, I was 22, just graduating
college, and so this song wasright in the wheelhouse of you
know any number of people that Iknew, okay, and maybe myself,
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where it's like you wake up thenext day and you know a lot of
regrets about whatever went onthe night before.
So yeah that was the.
I felt like they just describedthis all pretty perfectly.
And then it's just a great likesounding rock song at the same
time.
Speaker 2 (25:50):
It is.
It has that, that energy.
That's really fun.
And I think, like you know,when I think about 99 going into
like 2003, like those fouryears or so, you know you had
like lit, you had All AmericanReject.
You had a lot of groups comeout that had this kind of
similar sound to it, where itwas like this punk like, but
more mainstream punk, you know,like it is much more playable on
the radio than like traditionalpunk, um, and so I I love that
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and this kind of maybe it kickedoff that, that kind of love
affair with that genre of music.
But this certainly is is onthat list all right, track 10,
you've got a monster.
Speaker 1 (26:23):
Hit um scar Tissue by Red Hot Chili Peppers.
Speaker 2 (26:28):
Yeah, my goodness, originally I wasn't going to
include this on here, but, likeCalifornication, the album is
probably one of their bestalbums, if not their best album.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
You know, there's they have a lot of contenders,
but I loved this album.
Speaker 2 (26:42):
I had a hard time picking which track I wanted to
pick off of it.
I had thought that maybe Ihadn't picked Scar Tissue before
, but it turns out I had.
So, oh well, we get to talkabout it again.
But I listened to this song alot.
I didn't know what it was about, I just loved the mood of it.
I loved the tone of it.
I think when you're a teenagercertainly I was very, you know,
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like moody.
I think emo head was beginning.
You know we were like in theearly part of like the emo
movement and so you know it'sgetting into that kind of grungy
.
You know life sucks and blah,blah, blah, even though, my
goodness, my life was great at14.
(27:26):
Oh, young sammer, you have noidea.
But you know I just, yeah, Ilove, I love this song for the
guitar solo, his instrumentalbreaks, his voice, like the
storytelling, um, kind ofstruggling with addiction, what
he's talking about and trying tolike come back into normal life
.
You know, being being an addictand feeling that loneliness
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that you know, as he says, likewith the birds, I'll share this
lonely view, like just feelingthat you're high above
everything and you're not withthe people down below.
I think it's really poetic andpowerful, but absolutely love
this album and I've beenlistening to it ever since.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
Yeah, the lyric that stands out is scar tissue.
That I wish you saw sarcastic,mr Know-it-all.
Like just those two lines haveall stood out to me.
And then, you know, putting iton this mix where we just had
Adam's song, kind ofhighlighting kind of you don't
know sort of what somebody isgoing through, like that kind of
stood out to me a little bitmore listening to this again,
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because I was like, yeah, that's, that's exactly it.
It's like we kind of look atsomebody and sort of make a
judgment about them, but wedon't really know what's going
on or what they've been throughand and all of that.
So, um, yeah, this was yeah,that's absolutely true, yeah so
it's a great pick and reallykind of hit.
Hit a little differently, Ithink, when I put it in this mix
with with Adam's song just acouple tracks before it.
Speaker 2 (28:46):
All right, our last two tracks here are really
strong to end this mix, so we'llstart with yours first, and it
is Heartbreaker, featuring Jay-Zby Mariah Carey.
Speaker 1 (28:54):
Yeah, this one.
I mean, okay, jay-z, at thispoint he's probably three albums
into his career and he's prettybig at this point, like where
it's just kind of single aftersingle after single.
Now mariah carey, at this pointshe kind of made a splash in
the early 90s and then mid 90syou get the uh, all I want for
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christmas is you, which is still, like you know, the biggest
song in the world every year.
Right, but then she also had inlike 96, 97, the collaboration
with boys to men, one sweet daythat set like a record for being
at the top of the chart for anumber of weeks.
But so then comes 99 and likeshe comes with this song
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heartbreaker, which I mean is apretty strong song just by
itself.
But then she collaborates withJay Z and he comes on the track
and I just think it's a prettystrong song just by itself.
But then she collaborates withJay-Z and he comes on the track
and I just think it's a greatsong and one that's a little
underrated, like you reallydon't hear this much, but I
think it's a great one from hercatalog, but then Jay-Z makes a
great addition to it.
Speaker 2 (29:58):
Yeah, I agree, really really strong collaboration
between these two.
I didn't really, like many ofthem, didn't pay attention to
the lyrics until kind of goingthrough it and I liked it.
Like I thought it was reallyclever, you know.
It tells a story of like,basically from the point of view
of a woman wanting to leave aguy but she can't, even though
she knows that she should,coming in and being the other
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point of view of being that guythat like she's trying to leave
and kind of being cocky about itand being like, oh yeah, she
says that she hates me but shedoesn't, you know, and like a
very kind of common themesometimes in relationships where
you know one person wants toleave the other but the other
has like this confidence andthis allure and like there's
like this kind of you know,arguably a bad place to be in.
But anyway, I think capturingthat in the song and having the
two voices do that makes it verystrong and it's a great track.
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So really really nice one.
Speaker 1 (30:49):
All right, let's finish it off Our 99th mixtape.
The last track forgot about Dreby Dr Dre and Eminem.
Speaker 2 (30:59):
And I'm laughing here because we both wanted to put
the song on here, and so we justneed to know that none of us
forgot about Dre.
So, dr Dre, if you're listening, don't worry, we still remember
you.
Speaker 1 (31:14):
And we didn't forget about Eminem either, because
he's on here twice.
Speaker 2 (31:18):
Yeah, right, I know what a splash he made.
Funny enough, after puttingthis mix together, I went back
and watched the Super Bowl showof having Dre and Eminem and all
those guys at 50 Cent andKendrick Lamar, because I was
like you know what?
That was a great halftime show.
That was really good andwatching it a year later, I
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still believe it was a very,very good show.
I think it's one of theclassics.
It was a very, very good show,like I think it's one of the
classics.
Um, when those opening beatshit and you've got dre at the
board, I mean I have never hearda crowd at a super bowl
halftime show get into it asmuch as as you hear them there.
It was wild, especially beingyou know they were playing in la
like it couldn't have been moreperfect right, yeah, he could
have.
Speaker 1 (31:58):
And when those, when those first bars hit, he
honestly could have just stoodthere and done nothing for like
the 20 minutes that they weresupposed to be out there, and
then everyone still would havebeen like man, that was
incredible, right?
Remember that he just kind ofstood there and thought he was
going to start, then he neverdid and then the second half
started, yeah.
Speaker 2 (32:16):
Yeah, I mean, you know this is such a good song
Still gets played today,obviously obviously still
monster hit when it's played.
Apparently, eminem wrote mostof the song, which I did not
know.
I think that's incredible.
But you kind of hear that and Ithink you also hear it because
it's like you know, he's alittle bit more, a little bit
more cocky, a little bit moresure of himself.
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So you kind of I understand nowthat Eminem wrote that, because
that's definitely, you know,that was his vibe and his whole
thing.
So I think that's incredible.
But yeah, what an amazingcareer that Dre has had.
You know, thinking about thearc that he takes, going from
you know where he was in 99,producing this music, to the
launching beats and having thatbought by Apple, and I mean
everything that he's done sincethen is incredible.
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So it's really kind of cool tolook at that from the point of
view of a very successfulbusinessman, basically.
But great song and still holdsup.
Speaker 1 (33:08):
Yeah, and at the time he had kind of hit a little bit
of a lull.
If you watch that documentaryon HBO, defiant Ones, people
weren't really feeling a lot ofhis recent music.
And then he came out withChronic 2 at this time and then
also was producing Eminem and Ithink those two things happening
at the same time it was justlike a huge comeback musically.
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And then you're right, fromthen the business side just kind
of took off.
Speaker 2 (33:38):
Yeah, incredible.
Speaker 1 (33:39):
Well, so there you have it, folks, your 99th super
awesome mix.
This one a tribute to probablyour favorite musical year, 1999.
But don't worry, we have gotplenty of mixes ahead of us.
Um, hey, tell you what.
That's our 99th mix.
Let's see if we can get up to99 reviews, okay?
So if you're listening thisright now, take a second.
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Whatever player you on, give usa five-star review, follow us
at Super Awesome Mix, and Samerand I will get to work on our
next 99 mixes.
So for Samer, this is Matt.
We'll see you next time.
welcome back to another super awesome mix.
My name is matt.
Sit home alongside my co-hostand co-founder super awesome mix
, sammer Samer.
How are we doing this week?
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Doing real well.
I can't believe it.
I mean, you teased it on anearlier episode, but here we are
99 episodes of Super AwesomeMix Unbelievable.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
Unbelievable.
This is our 99th mixtape andyou know a lot of shows
celebrate 100, right, like youknow, you got to get at that
century mark.
But I think since pretty muchday one, we have talked about
the year in 1999 and how muchgreat music we thought came from
that year.
And so you know, we thought,well, let's celebrate our 99th
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mix instead of our 100th mix andjust do a tribute to our
favorite, maybe our favoritemusical year, 1999 it's high up
there for sure.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Yeah, I feel like 99 is a good one.
97 was also a really good one,but we already missed that, so I
guess maybe until 197, or well,or nine, or literally 1999.
Yeah, I was gonna say 97episodes by then.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
I'm guessing we'll be reaching a little bit and so,
yeah, we'll probably have to doyear-specific ones at that point
.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
I mean, yeah, we'll see if there's an upper limit to
how many mixtapes one can makeOnce we hit the year 1900, it'll
just be year by year, right,like, okay, now in 1901, this
was a monster hit.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
it sold seven copies, guys, which in today's term
would be 70 million it wastriple platinum if the RIAA had
existed back then.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
It did not, though it did not, um, but yeah, so 99
episodes.
So we did music from 1999.
And I picked songs that I hadon repeat 1999.
This is by no means you know,we always have that disclaimer
by no means a complete list.
There are so many good songsand from the year you know, we
also had Andrew Brand on, theauthor of the book Mixtape for
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the End of the World, whichprimarily featured songs from
1999 as well as they reached Y2K.
So that was an excellent mix.
If you're itching for more, youknow 99 music, but here we go.
Yeah, like I think we have areally, really good mix here.
I was excited about this one.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
Yeah, and a really diverse mix.
Like I think we hit a lot ofdifferent genres, so that's good
, so let's get it going.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
Okay, this was your first pick and I thought no
better way to start the mix withLivin' La Vida Loca by Ricky
Martin.
I mean, that's what we're doing, right, livin' that crazy life.
We got a mixtape podcast goingon 100 episodes.
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Oh my goodness, I love thissong.
I can't think of a better songto encapsulate the year 1999, at
least in my head, right, Ithink.
You know we tend to kind ofhave nostalgic views of the past
and and kind of not look at allthe terrible things that were
going on.
You know, the nineties by nomeans were perfect.
There was a lot of civil rightsissues, as there always have
been, and you know other thingsgoing on, of course.
But when I look back at 99, I'mlike, oh, what a simpler,
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easier time.
Of course I was younger too,that's the other thing at play.
So I was like in high school.
So you know who's worryingabout the world when you're in
high school.
You got your whole life aheadof you, unless you're Greta, you
know you're not really thinkingabout the world?
Speaker 1 (03:48):
Yeah, unless, you're Greta Thunberg, who was not
alive in 1999.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
I'm just going to let that one sit with me for a
second.
Yeah, just let that one sit fora second yeah.
But yeah, I loved this song.
What great energy.
I mean this blew up Incrediblyhappy song.
I think the rolling stones orsomeone rated it as like one of
the happiest songs of all time.
It absolutely could, you know,belongs on that list.
Very, very catchy beat,contagious energy, um, and yeah,
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I just think like that's.
That's what I like to think ofyou know, whenever I think of 99
, we've got some dark songs onthis mix, so we're gonna open
strong and then kind of deflatethe balloon a little bit.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
A little bit right, um, but yeah, I totally agree.
I mean, ricky martin had hismoment in 1999.
This was actually like hisfifth album that this came off
of, but it was his first bigenglish language hit and he
performed at the grammys thatyear.
And it wasn't even this song,uh, that he performed at the
grammys.
But like people went nuts forricky martin after this grammy
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performance, like you could youcan google or go to youtube and
and find the 99 grammysperformance by him and and it
was crazy, especially because Iremember the artists in the
crowd like really getting intoit and usually they stay pretty
cool and instead they just kindof got swept up into the energy
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of the performance and then thatso that was February 99.
Then a couple weeks later thissong is released and of course
it just goes crazy.
So, yeah, monster hit for thattime period.
But also, like I love that youincluded it because that was a
real like moment, like a realthing, and then you just got
this wave of Latin artists afterthat becoming more mainstream.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
Yeah, absolutely no, it was.
Yeah, it was definitely thebeginning of something awesome,
for sure, all right.
Track number two is your pickand you went with my Name Is by
Eminem.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
Yeah.
So Ricky Martin, you know wejust talked about him making a
big splash in 1999.
But you know we got our firsttaste of this guy named Eminem
and this is the lead single offof his first album.
And I just remember, I thinkthe thing that stood out to me,
it's like you heard it on theradio a little bit, but then the
music video was just so funnyand so weird.
But then when you got into thelyrics you realize like there
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was a little bit of a darkerside to them as well.
But I think it was just animmediate signal like that this
was going to be different.
But I think it was just animmediate signal like that this
was going to be different.
And you know, over the next,like I'd say, decade, you got a
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lot more Eminem and you know yougot a lot more out of his
lyrics that he really went aftersome people.
But yeah, this, this song, Imean just I just remember
hearing it a lot.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
But also, you know, go back and watch the video
because it's just kind of peak,eminem sort of making fun of
everything and everyone yeah,this definitely set the tone for
for the first part of hiscareer, no doubt, like just kind
of attacking a bunch ofdifferent people and groups.
And you know, I think if weever, if we're itching for mix
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ideas, we could do like songsthat didn't age well, and it
would probably just be Eminemand probably some Kanye thrown
on there, just things that maybedon't get played as much.
going into this, generationSeemed like a good idea at the
time maybe Right, right, right,but no, I mean, yeah, my
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goodness, this song was verydifferent.
I mean just very different, andit really did Like you heard it,
you're like oh, wow, like itcaught your attention.
What I thought was reallyinteresting that I didn't know
is that the name of this songand kind of the whole premise of
it is like he was so nervousmeeting Dre, who helped to
produce this album and the song,that the first words out of his
mouth were like hi, my name isEminem, like, and so then that
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just kind of stuck.
The other thing I learned is heused to do all of his songs in
one take and like, literally, ifhe messed up at the end of it,
he just rolled the whole thingback and and do it over again,
like he didn't want to edit anyof his tracks.
Um, I just think that'sincredible.
Like, with that in mind,listening to the lyrics and the
rap that he delivers, like to dothat in one take is very
impressive yes, it's.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
It's insane to think this is all one take.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
Yeah yeah, wild stuff , but really good.
Pick, strong opener on yourside.
We're actually going to go witha different pick of yours.
Uh, you get two back to backhere and it is another strong
contender for 99 year, someday,we'll know, by the new radicals
yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
So I I'm, you know, on this quest to include every
song from new radicals onlyalbum in a mix at some point,
and so I picked this one becauseI hadn't included it.
I hadn't included it elsewhere.
That's essentially why it's onhere, but it's also just a great
song.
So this was their second single.
So you Get what you Give istheir big hit.
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It still gets a ton of radioplay.
And then this was the secondsingle.
By the time this single came out, the band had broken up.
So they have this monstersingle.
They put out this album.
This is the second single.
The band is already dissolvedat that point.
Appropriate enough, because thesong is about a relationship
falling apart and how.
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Someday we'll understand it.
I just love the lyrics in thisone and how it is so well done,
in sort of a reflective way,where it's like there's so many
things you don't understand, butmaybe someday you'll know and
someday you'll understand why.
The lyric that always stood outto me from like the first time
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I heard it I remember is thatline where he asked did the
captain of the Titanic cry?
Right which I think is such agreat question but also, at the
time, very appropriate, because,I don't know, titanic was
probably still in theaters eventhough it'd come out in 1997
that's right.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
I'm sure it was.
Yeah, oh my goodness, I thinkmy sister saw it like 14 times,
so it's still very top of mindfor people.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
So it's like, yeah, well done including that, but
also you know a good question asthis monster ship is sinking.
But, um, yeah, just a great Imean well written song.
Again, I talk about this albumall the time, how great it is
and how unfortunate it is.
These guys only made one album,but you know another one to
check out.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
For sure.
I actually wrote here that Imean this album, and there are a
number of albums out there,right, especially the ones where
it's just like the one albumfrom an artist that was perfect,
where we could just probably doan entire episode just on the
album, um, and talk about it,because, like, the songs are so
strong and they each stand ontheir own.
You know, the miseducation oflauren hill would be another
wonderful example, which I alsobelieve came out in 99.
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So that's another strongcontender for why this year was
so great.
Um, but I do love this song.
This is actually the song Ifell in love with the new
radicals listening to and Ialways thought it was a love
song.
Funny enough, this was in thecategory of songs.
I just misinterpreted it as alove song as as a young teenager
and it wasn't until much laterI was like, oh right, it's a
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breakup song.
So I apologize to any pastinterests of mine if I put this
on a mixtape for you, it'sprobably really confusing, like
why is he giving me?
Speaker 1 (11:15):
a week later she's like look, I know we're breaking
up.
And you're like, what, what areyou talking about?
It just made you that mixtape.
And you're like, yeah, no, Iget it.
I get it, it's time to move onthat's why they were also
short-lived I love the kind ofrunning theme we have of you
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misinterpreting lyrics andgiving them like I would just
love to have some of these pastrelationships, like you know
call into the show and just belike, yeah, no, it was confusing
.
It was definitely confusinggetting that song from oh
goodness um, all right.
Well, thankfully, sammer, Imean, this next song applies to
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you, because you're definitelyseeing better days.
Um, it's better days.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
Parentheses, and the bottom drops out by citizen king
yeah, I don't know that I havelistened to a different song
from citizen king and even doingthis episode, I was like I was.
I should probably try to listento something else from from
this group, from this guy, and Ihaven't yet, so that's on me, I
will do that, but I love thissong.
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This is another song that youknow makes me reminisce about
the year 99, especially becauseit was featured in the show
Malcolm in the Middle, which waslike just a huge, huge show,
and you know, my goodness, talkabout an actor who had a huge
arc, going from playing the dadon Malcolm in the Middle to
Breaking Bad.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
Yeah, yeah.
Bryan Cranston yeah, just thebozo dad on Malcolm in the
Middle and then years later iswinning every award on Breaking
Bad.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
Yeah, winning every award on Breaking Bad.
Yeah, exactly, if you'replaying like a masterful drug
lord, that's a great show.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
I'm going to be honest, I called it in 99.
Yeah, I know that sounds crazy,there's no way to prove it, but
yeah, I called it.
I called it.
You were a visionary.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
You were a visionary.
You know, another addictinghappy song.
The song definitely makes melike full of joy.
I always love the bridge, likethe random little sample which I
thought was like very 90s,where there's like a woman who I
think is saying like like myGucci bag, and then there's a
guy oh, that's beautiful,beautiful.
It's like so random, you know,like just these random little
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samples it's thrown into songsback then.
Uh, that I really enjoyed.
So, um, but yeah, I really likeit, even though, again, you
know, as I read through thelyrics I realized that he's
literally talking about how he'shad better days and so he's
kind of going through a roughpatch right now.
But I always just interpretedit as, like the good days are
here, why not?
Well, yeah, it's kind of'reright.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
It has this kind of happy poppy sort of tune to it,
but yeah, it's like they're nothaving a great day and then the
bottom drops out, right.
It's almost like sort of thishow much worse could this day
get, sort of thing.
But I, you know, you said atthe beginning you're not sure if
you've heard any other songsfrom them, and I had that same
thought.
I was like, do I know anotherCitizen King song?
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I really did think.
And then I'm like you know what?
This is a one-hit wonder,Because this is a song that
still gets played.
If you're on various SiriusXMchannels it'll pop up.
But yeah, we have not heardanything else from Citizen King,
at least not on a big radioairplay level.
I'm sure there's some superfans out there that can tell us
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otherwise.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
For sure.
All right.
So track five here, a strongpick.
I liked this one, and it wasGoodbye Earl.
By the Chicks.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
Yeah, the Chicks, known at that time as the Dixie
Chicks, this was one of.
I mean, they had already had anumber of big hits, but this
album, fly, came out and Fly wasa really big.
I mean, just single aftersingle after single was like
really big for them.
And this one just always stoodout to me because I mean, if
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you're not familiar with thesong, it's about domestic abuse
and how, you know, this womangetting abused and her friend
decide that they're just goingto murder this woman's husband
and get away with it.
And the video is so well done.
It's really.
And again, the song is superupbeat.
The video is almost comicalbecause you get Dennis Franz
(15:29):
playing Earl and then you knowyou've got Lauren Holly and Jane
Krakowski playing Marianne andWanda, the two women in the song
, and so you've got all thesegreat actors in there and
they're all kind of dancingaround and having fun about how
Earl had to die and you know,goodbye Earl.
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But it's like when you take astep back it's like, oh, they're
gonna murder this guy and thissong's about domestic abuse and
like it's kind of a dark song towhere, like, a lot of radio
stations at the time refused toplay it because they were like,
yeah, it's a little too little,too much.
And it was actually, I think,the first kind of hint you got
that you know the chicks werebecause later they got a lot
more controversial and, you know, got into some trouble.
(16:14):
You know right or wrong, likeyou know, we won't need to get
into all that.
But they definitely got a lotmore political as their career
went on.
But at the time they were justa great like kind of country
crossover sort of trio.
And then this song comes outand it's like, oh okay, this is
something a little different,but it was still kind of a pop
hit.
You heard it on the radio allthe time yeah, this song
(16:37):
definitely has an edge to it.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
You're absolutely right.
Like I, I view it as almostlike a dark comedy kind of song,
because you know they'rethey're singing it so
lightheartedly and it's it's setto kind of a, you know,
sonically it sounds more upbeatand kind of fun and playful.
But, but, you're right, it'sset to kind of.
You know, sonically it soundsmore upbeat and kind of fun and
playful.
But you're right, it'sliterally about like murdering
someone and getting away with it.
I feel like, if you've not seenthe show Bad Sisters that's an
(16:59):
excellent show on Apple TV thiscould have been like the theme
song for that show, because thatshow also has a very similar
like theme of you know, thisgroup of women deciding that
someone's spouse needs to die,basically because he was like a
grade A A-hole.
So I think they missed anopportunity there.
They could have done that.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
All right, so your next pick.
You went with Steal my Sunshineby Len.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
Next pick you went with Steal my Sunshine by Len.
Yeah, this is another favoriteof mine from 99.
I love like the conversationthat occurs at the beginning,
you know again like just peopletalking in the middle of songs.
I feel like it doesn't happenso much anymore, but that was
definitely something thathappened a lot.
I love the question where he'slike well, does he like butter
tarts?
It's like it's just a super,super Canadian question.
(17:53):
Apparently, I've not had abutter tart, but apparently they
are a butter based pastry, ismy understanding.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
Which sounds inherently pretty good, right.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
I'll buy in um and then, yeah, like I, I really I
just loved the sound of thissong, like I just played it a
lot.
What's kind of funny is, youknow, looking at it now all
these years later and reallyinvestigating the lyrics, I just
kind of feel like it's like asong of like these guys, tim and
chad, who are just commentingon their bandmates like mark and
sharon, and then just beinglike kind of mean about them you
(18:28):
know, like I'm just gonna feellike they're giving them a lot
of flack and it's like what?
what's up with you, tim and chad, like come on back what makes?
Speaker 1 (18:40):
you so great huh right um, yeah, this is a.
I always consider this you'reright, though like if you dig
into the lyrics it's really not.
But this is another one that Iconsider kind of a fun song.
But I remember it from themovie Go, if you recall that
movie then in 99.
And that was a really kind ofunderrated fun movie, but also
(19:01):
one that's kind of about a lotof criminal activity.
So it's also kind of one ofthese.
It probably fits that in thatit's this fun sounding song with
this fun seeming movie, but butmaybe neither are as fun as you
might think it is.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
Right, Right, I have not seen that one so I'm not too
familiar, but that that seemsto fit thematically with it.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
That's definitely worth checking out.
You may want to go see that one.
Speaker 2 (19:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
And not in a Sam or you're going to hate it, but I
want you to watch it sort ofthing Like I genuinely think you
would enjoy that movie.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
Okay, all right, cool , all right.
Track seven here.
Now, I think for these next twotracks, we both get a little
down with our mood.
You went with Adam's Song byBlink-182.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
All right, I just felt like this song was really
important, right, and so, likewhen I think back to 1999, this
was a song that always stuckwith me because even at the time
, when you know the Internet atthat point people don't probably
(20:06):
realize this, first of allthere were no smartphones, for
sure and like looking up lyricson the Internet and meanings or
anything like that really itjust wasn't a thing right and so
.
But even at that time you hearthe song and the tone of it and
the lyrics and you're like youknow exactly what this song is
about and they do such a goodjob.
I thought it was such adeparture for Blink-182.
That was such a fun band.
(20:27):
They're still this fun band,right, but they wrote this song.
The song is essentially aboutteenage suicide and you know
even the opening chords of it.
Like I get a little emotional,like still listening to it now,
even though I have no experiencewith those types of emotions or
, thankfully, no directexperience with that.
(20:47):
It's still something thatresonates and I think that
really speaks to the quality ofthe song is that it can kind of
get you, even if you don't havea memory necessarily, to kind of
attach it to.
But yeah, I think it's so welldone.
And again, I love it when aband is really known for one
(21:07):
thing and then can do somethingelse speaks to kind of how
talented these guys really areyeah, for sure.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
I mean it kind of was a preview.
You know, now, knowing whatthey did with their career was
like a preview that they theyalso had an edge, like they
could go dark with their musicand and be very comfortable in
that space.
What I think is so funny islike a it's on an album called
enema of the state right.
B it's nestled it's track sevenon this album and it's nestled
between track six, dysentery,gary and then and then all the
(21:38):
small things, which is anotherlike mega hit of theirs, right,
um, and so I just think that'samazing.
yeah, like you, you come off ofdysentery, gary, and now you're
like, oh right, great, I'mreading a suicide letter of a
young teen, um, and it's liketotal mood and vibe shift.
And then now you're talkingabout all the small things and
like you're back, you're back athigh energy and like punk rock
(21:58):
and all that stuff, um, soyou're right, like I think it it
was really kind of cool andbrave of them to throw this in
there and to put it right smackin the middle of the album to
where it just demands yourattention, like you're going to
hear it, and I think that'sprobably a big part of what made
it so impactful at the time.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
And that album was everywhere.
I mean, that was a huge album.
And at the time.
You know there's no iTunes in1999.
So you're pretty much justbuying the whole album and
listening to it.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
Yeah, exactly yeah.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
All right.
So let's take a little, alittle shift here, at least from
a genre standpoint, and you'vegot Porcelain by Moby.
Speaker 2 (22:37):
Yeah, oh, I love, love, love the song and I think
you know we talked about 99being the start of new things
kind of making their way tomainstream and I think this song
was like one of the first kindof electric songs to kind of hit
the mainstream, Certainly to beas big as it did or, you know,
become as big as it did.
So love, love this song.
(23:00):
I just think it has this kindof like haunting mix of piano
and that electronic beat and hisyou know, the beautiful vocals.
It's a song about a breakup, soit's definitely like a moodier,
sad song.
And what's really funny, youknow, in doing the research on
it, is he didn't want to releasethis.
He said he, quote, I had Iactually had to be talked into
(23:21):
including it.
When I first recorded I thoughtit was average.
I didn't like the way Iproduced it, I thought it
sounded mushy, I thought myvocal sounded really weak.
I couldn't imagine anyone elsewanting to listen to it.
Uh, end quote.
And I just think that'sincredible that he, you know he
put this song on therereluctantly and then it ended up
just becoming one of the mostlike prominent songs off of this
album and one that got played awhole lot and then 20 years
(23:43):
later it was sampled by ASAP,rocky um and the song ASAP
forever, and so it had arevitalization off of that Um.
So I just think it's yeah, it'samazing and it speaks to you
know, I talk on my show superawesome.
You sometimes like what's, youknow what's junky to you might
not be junky to someone else.
Like don't count yourself out,you'd be amazed.
(24:04):
Like just put it out there andsee what people think.
So I like that aspect of thissong a lot.
I think it's really powerful.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
Yeah, and you're right.
I mean I talked to the top ofthe show how we really did a
pretty good job of including alot of different genres on this
and it kind of speaks to like in1999, there were a lot of
different genres out there thatwere getting regular radio play
and I think for moby this youknow, dance electronic artist.
I mean he really had a momentthere for several years where he
(24:33):
had a lot of radio hits, whichis rare, I think, for that, that
type of music.
But yeah, this one waseverywhere at the time.
It's's only I counted there's63 words in the song.
Speaker 2 (24:44):
Wow.
So pretty pretty low yeah.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
Not many lyrics, but they're impactful.
And you're right, it's a reallywell done song.
And, you're right, you get alittle bit of instrumentation
along with, like, the electronicpart of it.
So, yeah, really well done.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
Awesome, all right track.
Nine here, one of my great pick.
Speaker 1 (25:04):
I love this one, uh, one of my all-time favorites and
it's my own worst enemy by lityeah, this is such a fun song,
like it's both, you know,regretful and funny at the same
time.
I mean at the time you know,1999, I was 22, just graduating
college, and so this song wasright in the wheelhouse of you
know any number of people that Iknew, okay, and maybe myself,
(25:27):
where it's like you wake up thenext day and you know a lot of
regrets about whatever went onthe night before.
So yeah that was the.
I felt like they just describedthis all pretty perfectly.
And then it's just a great likesounding rock song at the same
time.
Speaker 2 (25:50):
It is.
It has that, that energy.
That's really fun.
And I think, like you know,when I think about 99 going into
like 2003, like those fouryears or so, you know you had
like lit, you had All AmericanReject.
You had a lot of groups comeout that had this kind of
similar sound to it, where itwas like this punk like, but
more mainstream punk, you know,like it is much more playable on
the radio than like traditionalpunk, um, and so I I love that
(26:11):
and this kind of maybe it kickedoff that, that kind of love
affair with that genre of music.
But this certainly is is onthat list all right, track 10,
you've got a monster.
Speaker 1 (26:23):
Hit um scar Tissue by Red Hot Chili Peppers.
Speaker 2 (26:28):
Yeah, my goodness, originally I wasn't going to
include this on here, but, likeCalifornication, the album is
probably one of their bestalbums, if not their best album.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
You know, there's they have a lot of contenders,
but I loved this album.
Speaker 2 (26:42):
I had a hard time picking which track I wanted to
pick off of it.
I had thought that maybe Ihadn't picked Scar Tissue before
, but it turns out I had.
So, oh well, we get to talkabout it again.
But I listened to this song alot.
I didn't know what it was about, I just loved the mood of it.
I loved the tone of it.
I think when you're a teenagercertainly I was very, you know,
(27:05):
like moody.
I think emo head was beginning.
You know we were like in theearly part of like the emo
movement and so you know it'sgetting into that kind of grungy
.
You know life sucks and blah,blah, blah, even though, my
goodness, my life was great at14.
(27:26):
Oh, young sammer, you have noidea.
But you know I just, yeah, Ilove, I love this song for the
guitar solo, his instrumentalbreaks, his voice, like the
storytelling, um, kind ofstruggling with addiction, what
he's talking about and trying tolike come back into normal life
.
You know, being being an addictand feeling that loneliness
(27:46):
that you know, as he says, likewith the birds, I'll share this
lonely view, like just feelingthat you're high above
everything and you're not withthe people down below.
I think it's really poetic andpowerful, but absolutely love
this album and I've beenlistening to it ever since.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
Yeah, the lyric that stands out is scar tissue.
That I wish you saw sarcastic,mr Know-it-all.
Like just those two lines haveall stood out to me.
And then, you know, putting iton this mix where we just had
Adam's song, kind ofhighlighting kind of you don't
know sort of what somebody isgoing through, like that kind of
stood out to me a little bitmore listening to this again,
(28:20):
because I was like, yeah, that's, that's exactly it.
It's like we kind of look atsomebody and sort of make a
judgment about them, but wedon't really know what's going
on or what they've been throughand and all of that.
So, um, yeah, this was yeah,that's absolutely true, yeah so
it's a great pick and reallykind of hit.
Hit a little differently, Ithink, when I put it in this mix
with with Adam's song just acouple tracks before it.
Speaker 2 (28:46):
All right, our last two tracks here are really
strong to end this mix, so we'llstart with yours first, and it
is Heartbreaker, featuring Jay-Zby Mariah Carey.
Speaker 1 (28:54):
Yeah, this one.
I mean, okay, jay-z, at thispoint he's probably three albums
into his career and he's prettybig at this point, like where
it's just kind of single aftersingle after single.
Now mariah carey, at this pointshe kind of made a splash in
the early 90s and then mid 90syou get the uh, all I want for
(29:16):
christmas is you, which is still, like you know, the biggest
song in the world every year.
Right, but then she also had inlike 96, 97, the collaboration
with boys to men, one sweet daythat set like a record for being
at the top of the chart for anumber of weeks.
But so then comes 99 and likeshe comes with this song
(29:36):
heartbreaker, which I mean is apretty strong song just by
itself.
But then she collaborates withJay Z and he comes on the track
and I just think it's a prettystrong song just by itself.
But then she collaborates withJay-Z and he comes on the track
and I just think it's a greatsong and one that's a little
underrated, like you reallydon't hear this much, but I
think it's a great one from hercatalog, but then Jay-Z makes a
great addition to it.
Speaker 2 (29:58):
Yeah, I agree, really really strong collaboration
between these two.
I didn't really, like many ofthem, didn't pay attention to
the lyrics until kind of goingthrough it and I liked it.
Like I thought it was reallyclever, you know.
It tells a story of like,basically from the point of view
of a woman wanting to leave aguy but she can't, even though
she knows that she should,coming in and being the other
(30:22):
point of view of being that guythat like she's trying to leave
and kind of being cocky about itand being like, oh yeah, she
says that she hates me but shedoesn't, you know, and like a
very kind of common themesometimes in relationships where
you know one person wants toleave the other but the other
has like this confidence andthis allure and like there's
like this kind of you know,arguably a bad place to be in.
But anyway, I think capturingthat in the song and having the
two voices do that makes it verystrong and it's a great track.
(30:46):
So really really nice one.
Speaker 1 (30:49):
All right, let's finish it off Our 99th mixtape.
The last track forgot about Dreby Dr Dre and Eminem.
Speaker 2 (30:59):
And I'm laughing here because we both wanted to put
the song on here, and so we justneed to know that none of us
forgot about Dre.
So, dr Dre, if you're listening, don't worry, we still remember
you.
Speaker 1 (31:14):
And we didn't forget about Eminem either, because
he's on here twice.
Speaker 2 (31:18):
Yeah, right, I know what a splash he made.
Funny enough, after puttingthis mix together, I went back
and watched the Super Bowl showof having Dre and Eminem and all
those guys at 50 Cent andKendrick Lamar, because I was
like you know what?
That was a great halftime show.
That was really good andwatching it a year later, I
(31:38):
still believe it was a very,very good show.
I think it's one of theclassics.
It was a very, very good show,like I think it's one of the
classics.
Um, when those opening beatshit and you've got dre at the
board, I mean I have never hearda crowd at a super bowl
halftime show get into it asmuch as as you hear them there.
It was wild, especially beingyou know they were playing in la
like it couldn't have been moreperfect right, yeah, he could
have.
Speaker 1 (31:58):
And when those, when those first bars hit, he
honestly could have just stoodthere and done nothing for like
the 20 minutes that they weresupposed to be out there, and
then everyone still would havebeen like man, that was
incredible, right?
Remember that he just kind ofstood there and thought he was
going to start, then he neverdid and then the second half
started, yeah.
Speaker 2 (32:16):
Yeah, I mean, you know this is such a good song
Still gets played today,obviously obviously still
monster hit when it's played.
Apparently, eminem wrote mostof the song, which I did not
know.
I think that's incredible.
But you kind of hear that and Ithink you also hear it because
it's like you know, he's alittle bit more, a little bit
more cocky, a little bit moresure of himself.
(32:36):
So you kind of I understand nowthat Eminem wrote that, because
that's definitely, you know,that was his vibe and his whole
thing.
So I think that's incredible.
But yeah, what an amazingcareer that Dre has had.
You know, thinking about thearc that he takes, going from
you know where he was in 99,producing this music, to the
launching beats and having thatbought by Apple, and I mean
everything that he's done sincethen is incredible.
(32:59):
So it's really kind of cool tolook at that from the point of
view of a very successfulbusinessman, basically.
But great song and still holdsup.
Speaker 1 (33:08):
Yeah, and at the time he had kind of hit a little bit
of a lull.
If you watch that documentaryon HBO, defiant Ones, people
weren't really feeling a lot ofhis recent music.
And then he came out withChronic 2 at this time and then
also was producing Eminem and Ithink those two things happening
at the same time it was justlike a huge comeback musically.
(33:32):
And then you're right, fromthen the business side just kind
of took off.
Speaker 2 (33:38):
Yeah, incredible.
Speaker 1 (33:39):
Well, so there you have it, folks, your 99th super
awesome mix.
This one a tribute to probablyour favorite musical year, 1999.
But don't worry, we have gotplenty of mixes ahead of us.
Um, hey, tell you what.
That's our 99th mix.
Let's see if we can get up to99 reviews, okay?
So if you're listening thisright now, take a second.
(34:01):
Whatever player you on, give usa five-star review, follow us
at Super Awesome Mix, and Samerand I will get to work on our
next 99 mixes.
So for Samer, this is Matt.
We'll see you next time.
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